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Top Highbrow Films (#101-200)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
101 The Man with the Movie Camera 1929 Dziga Vertov 284
102 His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks 86
103 High Noon 1952 Fred Zinnemann 45
104 Contempt 1963 Jean-Luc Godard 373
105 Brief Encounter 1945 David Lean 159
106 Amarcord 1973 Federico Fellini 291
107 The Leopard 1963 Luchino Visconti 420
108 The Lady Eve 1941 Preston Sturges 125
109 Star Wars 1977 George Lucas 7
110 Nanook of the North 1922 Robert J. Flaherty 339
111 Pandora's Box 1929 Georg Wilhelm Pabst 367
112 Great Expectations 1946 David Lean 234
113 Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948 Max Ophüls 403
114 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 121
115 Sherlock, Jr. 1924 Buster Keaton 226
116 Do the Right Thing 1989 Spike Lee 106
117 Orpheus 1950 Jean Cocteau 470
118 Sansho the Bailiff 1954 Kenji Mizoguchi 459
119 My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford 211
120 Earth 1930 Aleksandr Dovzhenko 465
121 Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen 135
122 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Steven Spielberg 21
123 Ashes and Diamonds 1958 Andrzej Wajda 416
124 The Big Sleep 1946 Howard Hawks 122
125 Umberto D. 1952 Vittorio De Sica 334
126 Bride of Frankenstein 1935 James Whale 116
127 Wings of Desire 1987 Wim Wenders 195
128 To Be or Not to Be 1942 Ernst Lubitsch 197
129 Top Hat 1935 Mark Sandrich 132
130 Paths of Glory 1957 Stanley Kubrick 144
131 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 Sergio Leone 136
132 Mr. Hulot's Holiday 1953 Jacques Tati 321
133 Belle de Jour 1967 Luis Buñuel 261
134 The Last Laugh 1924 F.W. Murnau 496
135 Alexander Nevsky 1938 Sergei M. Eisenstein and Dmitri Vasilyev 383
136 Goodfellas 1990 Martin Scorsese 31
137 Blow-Up 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni 253
138 Unforgiven 1992 Clint Eastwood 80
139 Un chien andalou 1929 Luis Buñuel 369
140 Diary of a Country Priest 1951 Robert Bresson 519
141 Days of Heaven 1978 Terrence Malick 295
142 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino 20
143 It Happened One Night 1934 Frank Capra 53
144 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 Lewis Milestone 119
145 Pickpocket 1959 Robert Bresson 447
146 Day for Night 1973 François Truffaut 322
147 The Battle of Algiers 1966 Gillo Pontecorvo 292
148 A Man Escaped 1956 Robert Bresson 565
149 Red River 1948 Howard Hawks 183
150 The Scarlet Empress 1934 Josef von Sternberg 505
151 Raise the Red Lantern 1991 Yimou Zhang 326
152 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick 170
153 Henry V 1944 Laurence Olivier 286
154 Cries and Whispers 1972 Ingmar Bergman 365
155 Paisan 1946 Roberto Rossellini 616
156 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder 147
157 The African Queen 1951 John Huston 71
158 The Gospel According to St. Matthew 1964 Pier Paolo Pasolini 592
159 Mean Streets 1973 Martin Scorsese 171
160 Stairway to Heaven 1946 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 242
161 The Wind 1928 Victor Sjöström 410
162 Rio Bravo 1959 Howard Hawks 280
163 Sullivan's Travels 1941 Preston Sturges 113
164 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick 43
165 Laura 1944 Otto Preminger 207
166 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols 38
167 The Conversation 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 176
168 Barry Lyndon 1975 Stanley Kubrick 423
169 Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949 Robert Hamer 228
170 The Crowd 1928 King Vidor 258
171 One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Milos Forman 37
172 Trouble in Paradise 1932 Ernst Lubitsch 262
173 Nights of Cabiria 1957 Federico Fellini 425
174 Au hasard Balthazar 1966 Robert Bresson 562
175 The Band Wagon 1953 Vincente Minnelli 335
176 Lola Montès 1955 Max Ophüls 497
177 Triumph of the Will 1935 Leni Riefenstahl 432
178 Pierrot le Fou 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 521
179 Once Upon a Time in America 1984 Sergio Leone 233
180 A Star Is Born 1954 George Cukor 224
181 Playtime 1967 Jacques Tati 351
182 The Decalogue 1989 Krzysztof Kieslowski 376
183 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer 93
184 Broken Blossoms 1919 D.W. Griffith 501
185 The 39 Steps 1935 Alfred Hitchcock 223
186 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 David Lean 52
187 Shoah 1985 Claude Lanzmann 479
188 Fargo 1996 Joel Coen 50
189 Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg 27
190 Last Tango in Paris 1972 Bernardo Bertolucci 271
191 A Hard Day's Night 1964 Richard Lester 164
192 Zero for Conduct 1933 Jean Vigo 518
193 Throne of Blood 1957 Akira Kurosawa 581
194 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford 294
195 The Wages of Fear 1953 Henri-Georges Clouzot 285
196 October 1928 Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei M. Eisenstein 766
197 Day of Wrath 1943 Carl Theodor Dreyer 607
198 Rebel without a Cause 1955 Nicholas Ray 85
199 Three Colors: Red 1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski 231
200 Repulsion 1965 Roman Polanski 348
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